Abstract: A structure having a movable dome-type roof including a plurality of independently movable shell sections which nest one beneath the other. A frame superstructure is arched over the dome to support the upper ends of the shell sections. The lower edges of the shell sections are mounted on self-powered carriages and are independently shiftable about a circular base of the structure. By selectively shifting individual shell sections, the dome may be contracted or expanded as desired. The superstructure may be mounted on a circular track or on a pair of linear tracks to expedite the opening and closing of the dome.

Abstract: A fire alarm system of the present invention is adapted to compute an approximation equation based on the detection data from a detector or detectors such about a smoke density, a temperature, a gas concentration, etc. and predictively determine a fire based on the approximation equation. The system including computing section for computing an approximation equation approximating a change in the physical phenomenon related to the occurrence of a fire which is output from the detector or detectors, sequentially sampled and stored and for computing a future value of the phenomenon estimated from the approximation by using a predetermined number of the data stored in a storing section. The future vale is compared with a data value preliminarily set in association with the fire alarming and an alarm is generated when the relation therebetween is not within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A fire alarm system which comprises one or more detecting sections for detecting a change in the surrounding phenomena due to a fire in an analog form; a storing section for storing the analog data output from the detecting section or sections; a level comparing section for comparing a data level represented by present instantaneous analog data output from the detecting section or sections and a predetermined level; fire judging instructing section which extracts a plurality of data stored during a predetermined period of time back to from the time when a comparison signal is obtained from the level comparing section, calculates a change amount between the respective extracted data and generates an output for initiating the calculation when the number of the calculated change amounts exceeding a predetermined amount exceeds a predetermined number; and a fire judging section for receiving the data stored in the storing section in response to the signal from the comparing section and/or fire judging instructing

Abstract: A method of connecting beams having an H-shaped section to a column having an H-shaped section of a steel frame construction with upper and lower flange fittings. The flange fitting comprises a substantially rectangular base plate to be connected to the column having centrally a continuous thicker portion from which the base plate is tapered toward opposite ends of the base plate, a supporting plate projecting from the thicker portion for supporting a flange of the beam and a reinforcement on the base plate forming a T-shaped portion with the supporting plate. First the supporting plate of the upper flange fitting is secured to one end of an upper flange of the beam in end-to-end relationship and the base plate of the lower flange fitting is bolted in position to the column.

Abstract: Fittings for connecting columns and beams of a steel frame construction comprise an upper flange fitting and a lower flange fitting. The upper flange fitting comprises a substantially rectangular base plate to be bolted to a web of the column and protrusions extending from the base plate to be welded to an upper flange and a web of the beam. The lower flange fitting comprises a substantially rectangular base plate to be bolted to the web of the column and a horizontal plate projecting from the base plate to be bolted to a lower flange of the beam.